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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Coup apologist comes a cropper

Robin Nair

Coup apologist Robin Nair has resigned as director of the University of Fiji's Centre for International and Regional Affairs after a fall out with the Vice Chancellor, Mahendra Kumar.

The Fiji Times says the former diplomat resigned last Friday - the same day Kumar cancelled two postgraduate courses due to be started by Nair's section.

Mahendra Kumar

Nair, who was one of the early supporters of the illegal regime alongside John Samy and John Prasad, is quoted as saying he resigned when the classes were cancelled unilaterally by the 'VC' and against advice from and the registrar and for concocted reasons.

Kumar says the courses were being postponed not cancelled. "The original advertisement did state that the courses will only be offered if there is a minimum number that would ensure the course is viable."

Just five students had paid their $750 fee. The courses included government officials, workers from regional and international organisations, the private sector and journalists.

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Carlos Marighella

SABOTAGE

Sabotage is a highly destructive type of attack using very few persons—and sometimes requiring only one—to accomplish the desired result. When the urban guerrilla uses sabotage, the first step is isolated sabotage. Then comes the step of dispersed and general sabotage, carried out by the population. Well-executed sabotage demands study, planning and careful action. A characteristic form of sabotage is explosion, using dynamite, fire or the placing of mines. A little sand, a trickle of any kind of combustible, a poor lubrication job, a screw removed, a short circuit, inserted pieces of wood or iron, can cause irreparable damage. The objective of sabotage is to hurt, to damage, to make useless and to destroy vital enemy points such as the following:

1. the economy of the country 2. agricultural or industrial production 3. transport and communication systems 4. military and police systems and their establishments and depots

5. the repressive military-police system

6. the firms and properties of exploiters in the country

The urban guerrilla should endanger the economy of the country, particularly its economic and financial aspects, such as its domestic and foreign banking network, its exchange and credit systems, its tax collection system, etc.

Public offices, centers of government and government depots are easy targets for sabotage. Nor will it be easy to prevent the sabotage of agricultural and industrial production by the urban guerrilla, with his thorough knowledge of the local situation. Factory workers acting as urban guerrillas are excellent industrial saboteurs, since they, better than anyone, understand the industry, the factory, the machinery or the part most likely to destroy an entire operation, doing much more damage than a poorly-informed layman could do.

With respect to the enemy's transport and communications systems, beginning with railway traffic, it is necessary to attack them systematically with sabotage. The only caution is against causing death and injury to passengers, especially regular commuters on suburban and long-distance trains. Attacks on freight trains, rolling or stationary stock, stoppage of military transports and communciations systems, these are the major objectives in this area. Sleepers can be damaged and pulled up, as can rails. A tunnel blocked by a barrier of explosives, or an obstruction caused by a derailed car, causes enormous harm.

The derailment of a train carrying fuel is of major damage to the enemy. So is dynamiting a railroad bridge. In a system where the size and weight of the rolling equipment is enormous, it takes months for workers to repair or rebuild the destruction and damage. As for highways, they can be obstructed with trees, stationary vehicles, ditches, dislocation of barriers by dynamite, and bridges destroyed by explosions. Ships can be damaged at anchor in seaports or riverports, or in the shipyards. Aircraft can be destroyed or damaged on the ground. Telephone and telegraph lines can be systematically damaged, their towers blown up, and their lines made useless. Transport and communications must be sabotaged immediately because the revolutionary movement has already begun in Brazil, and it is essential to impede the enemy's movement of troops and munitions.

Oil lines, fuel plants, depots for bombs and ammunition arsenals, military camps and bases must become targets for sabotage operations, while vehicles, army trucks and other military or police vehicles must be destroyed wherever they are found. The military and police repression centers and their specialized organs must also claim the attention of the guerrilla saboteur. Foreign firms and properties in the country, for their part, must become such frequent targets of sabotage that the volume of actions directed against them surpasses the total of all other actions against enemy vital points.

In spite of all this, the police systematically fail. The armed forces, the navy and the air force are mobilized to undertake routine police functions, but even so they can find no way to halt guerrilla operations or to wipe out the revolutionary organization, with its fragmented groups that move around and operate throughout the country.

The people refuse to collaborate with the government, and the general sentiment is that this government is unjust, incapable of solving problems, and that it resorts simply to the physical liquidation of its opponents. The political situation in the country is transformed into a military situation in which the "gorillas" appear more and more to be the ones responsible for violence, while the lives of the people grow worse.

When they see the military and the dictatorship on the brink of the abyss, and fearing the consequences of a civil war which is already well underway, the pacifiers (always to be found within the ruling elite) and the opportunists (partisans of nonviolent struggle) join hands and circulate rumors behind the scenes begging the hangmen for elections, "re-democratization", constitutional reforms, and other tripe designed to fool the people and make them stop the rebellion.

But, watching the guerrillas, the people now understand that it is a farce to vote in any elections which have as their sole objective guaranteeing the survival of the dictatorship and covering up its crimes. Attacking wholeheartedly this election farce and the so-called "political solution", which is so appealing to the opportunists, the urban guerrillas must become even more aggressive and active, resorting without pause to sabotage, terrorism, expropriations, assaults, kidnappings, executions, etc. This action answers any attempt to fool the people with the opening of Congress and the reorganization of political parties—parties of the government and of the positions which the government allows—when all the time parliament and the so-called "parties" only function thanks to the permission of the military dictatorship, in a true spectacle of puppets or dogs on a leash.

The role of the urban guerrilla, in order to win the support of the population, is to continue fighting, keeping in mind the interests of the people and heightening the disastrous situation within which the government must act. These are the conditions, harmful to the dictatorship, which permit the guerrillas to open rural warfare in the middle of an uncontrollable urban rebellion.

The urban guerrilla is engaged in revolutionary action for the people, and with them seeks the participation of the people in the struggle against the dictatorship and the liberation of the country. Beginning with the city and the support of the people, the rural guerrilla war develops rapidly, establishing its infrastructure carefully while the urban area continues the rebellion.

Eyewitnesses from Captain's Café located on the Savusavu waterfront say that the tragic incident occurred just after 7.30 last night.

They heard a loud explosion and when they ran out to see what had happened, they said that they saw huge flames from one of the yachts.

A woman from the café at the Copra Shed Marina building in Savusavu said a number of people rushed to find out if anyone was on the yacht.

She said a man was rescued from the vessel and as he was being rushed to shore to be taken to hospital, she could only hear the man repeatedly saying that his wife is trapped in the yacht and needs to go back in there.

She said the woman was trapped in the vessel and passed away as no one could go back to the yacht.

National Fire Authority's Acting Chief Executive Officer, Aseri Radrodro said they can only confirm that a woman died in the yacht fire while her husband is admitted in hospital.

Other queries have been referred to the police.

Police referred all queries to the Ministry of Information however the ministry said Police should be releasing the information.

@Anonymous 4:08Thanks for sharing this article.We should keep this as an option.Reminds me of the PWD mechanic who put sugar in the bulldozer at Walu Bay.I'm going to download this. May come in handy in the future.

This has been coming a long way away...University of Fiji was formed bacause of ulterior motives of those individuals, institutions, and others...they know themselves.

Just to try and distabilise the then Fijian led Government of the day. Mahendra Chaudary, the current VC of USP, the current VC of FNU, Biman Prasad and others know this. It was not for improving the standards/ratings/credibility for education in Fiji and the South Pacific, it was merely for political milleage, in trying to unseat the Fijians (Kaiviti), and distablise the cooperation and togetherness of regional countries. Look at what is happening, these fake academics are tearing each other apart, however, let me remind them and their croonies that the people of the South Pacific are forever united because it is deeply embedded in our culture....you guys brought you own anyway.

The war of nerves or psychological warfare is an aggressive technique, based on the direct or indirect use of mass media and rumors in order to demoralize the government. In psychological warfare, the government is always at a disadvantage because it imposes censorship on the media and winds up in a defensive position by not allowing anything against it to filter through. At this point, it becomes desperate, is involved in greater contradictions and loss of prestige, and loses time and energy in an exhausting effort at control which is liable to be broken at any moment.

The objective of the war of nerves is to mislead, spreading lies among the authorities in which everyone can participate, thus creating an atmosphere of nervousness, discredit, insecurity, uncertainty and concern on the part of the government. The best methods used by urban guerrillas in the war of nerves are the following: 1. Using the telephone and the mail to announce false clues to the police and government, including information on the planting of bombs and any other act of terrorism in public offices and other places—kidnapping and assassination plans. etc.—to force the authorities to wear themselves out by following up on the false information fed to them; 2. Letting false plans fall into the hands of the police to divert their attention; 3. Planting rumors to make the government uneasy;

4. Exploiting by every means possible the corruption, the mistakes and the failures of the government and its representatives, forcing them into demoralizing explanations and justifications in the very communication media they wish to maintain under censorship; 5. Presenting denunciations to foreign embassies, the United Nations, the papal nunciature, and the international commissions defending human rights or freedom of the press, exposing each concrete violation and each use of violence by the military dictatorship and making it known that the revolutionary war will continue with serious danger for the enemies of the population

7.38 you said it right..they had ulterior motives to set up another University..its in their culture,DNA,blood....gaga,mircha,devilish no matter how they want to cloth it..we can see it from afar...SA RAUTA MADA...We are just fed up......read their history....

Qualifications gained from UoF are not recognized overseas. Notice how coup supporters were given high posts in the university, yet they are considered useless elsewhere. USP is well established, yet the idiots went ahead and established the UoF. It was a no brainer.

Frank is Fiji version of James Ibori from Nigeria. James Ibori is getting prosecuted in London.

From the moment he was elected he set about enriching himself at the expense of some of the poorest people in the world. His greed increased exponentially during the course of his governorship, as did his arrogance."Under Nigerian law, Ibori was immune from prosecution during his two terms as governor, making him feel "untouchable", the court heard, and he used the opportunity to "systematically defraud" the public.

Robin Nair's is the cautionary tale of a well-meaning gentleman who, like so many others, bought into the 'interim' government's early rhetoric of multi-culturalism, transparency and accountabilty. But unlike so many of them, he actually tested the regime at its word and then had the courage and integrity to recognize and publically acknowledge the disparity between the regime's rhetoric and its actions. Of course, that doesn't get you very far with a duplicitous regime led by egotistical idiots.

That Nair has 'come a cropper' is an apt expression. The phrase comes from the hind quarters, or 'crupper', of a horse. It used to be said that anyone who took a headlong fall from a horse had fallen 'neck and crop'. A lot of well-intentioned people, and not a few mad-brain'd scoundrels, have tumbled neck and crop from their mounts atop this beastly regime.

@Anonymous 4:08 and 8:08That's cool bro. Keep them coming.As for Sabotage : Thank you Ministry of Forestry for cutting down all the trees so that Nadi can get flooded.Please cut down more trees.Thank you too DISMAC for the sabotage.Thank you too hoteliers for not helping the flood victims. That is very good sabotage of the tourism industry.lol.

University of Fiji is a farce, the handiwork of a cabal of Arya Samaj supports (Bhuwan Datt, Kamlesh Arya, Devendra Pathik) who thought they could run it own their own. The staff are a laughing stock. Jyoti Nanda is an Associate Professor. She will be lucky to be senior tutor at a minor Australian universiy. Mahendra Kumar as VC? As for Robin Nair, he is a do-gooder, a retired low level Australian diplomat with nothing to do in Australia. Went to Fiji looking for fame. He is now currying favour with ASKfor some minor post in the military regime.Well deserved kick in the butt.

University of Fiji should be renamed Arya Samaj University of Fiji because in essence that is what it is. Run by a cabal of autocratic Arya Samaji old farts with no academic credentials.

The university (if it can be called that) is there mostly for their sense of prestige, so that they can act like big shots in their community. People like coup supporter Kamlesh Arya who have no academic qualifications are running the place in a dictatorial manner and interfering in academic business they know nothing about. Such control freaks have ruined the place. why is tax-payer money being wasted for the egos of a few arya samaji old farts like Kamlesh?

Coup champion Satendra Nandan who has no standing among his peers is milking the place. he even managed to get his wife a job as assistant professor. Haha, she won't even get a tutor's job in Australia. Saten is known to be a joker so hopefully he will see the humour here.

tax payers' money is being wasted on this so-called university and over the hill academics like Nandan collecting fat salaries. Word is that Nandan lived up to his reputation of 'None-Done' while there.

As for Vice-Chancellor Mahendra Kumar, he is known as the "naga" professor because he has an eye for the fairer sex (although girls don't have an eye for him). Naga means horny in Fiji-Hindi. he got in through nepotism, just as saten nandan's wife did - and Saten is always complaining about nepotism but it is ok when his wife is the beneficiary.

Note the difference....PNG university students getting involved in the country's constitutitional crisis while Fiji's university stduents are glamourising themseleves on Facebook. What a shame such a difference and indefference

Looks like the 'university' is a hotbed of Samaji 'palwari mamla' (jobs for the family), with washed-up academics Saten Nandan and wife making hay while the sun shines and now Pathik's son-in-law Mahendra appointed vice-chancellor.

University of Fiji is run by Labour Party supporters and one can see parallels between the two organisations - run in a dictatorial manner and full of nepotism - recall how Mahen 'Mr Clean' 'Chor'dhry gave his son Rahen a job and his in law, Sachida, a senate position.

You deserved what you got Robin Nair!! Ci o iko Robin!!!!I am always amazed when people join this ILLEGAL Regime!! It is ILLEGAL people!!It is their way or the highway!! Look back at their history since Dec 2006. When are you people going to learn??

Self-styled satirist Satendra Nandan will surely appreciate the irony. After condemning Fijian govts for nepotism left right and centre, uses his connections at UoF to get wife appointed to a position and salary she does not deserve!

A hypocrite and opportunist of the worst kind who milked uni for all it was worth while claiming he was making a sacrifice; what bloody sacrifice when both husband-wife combined collecting $100k-plus. How about you write something about corruption and nepotism at UoF such as appointment of Pathik's sone in law as VC, Prof nandan? Or do you only have eyes for corruption among Fijians. You truly are a racist, 'Prof None-Done'.

'Low level' Australian diplomat Robin Nair, or 'Naive Nair' as someone has aptly renamed him, should have stuck his backside in Canberra rather than try and be a big shot in Fiji and support an illegal regime!

Robin Nair shows symptoms of whatI call the 'hero complex'. This is refers to first worlders who like to tell third worlders what is good for them. First worlders who are originally from the third world are most severely afflicted by the syndrome.

Lowly-ranked civil servants like Nair, whom nobody gives a rat's arse about in Australia, get a bit of media attention in Fiji and it gets to their head and makes them feel important. It has to do with vanity and inflated egos more than anything else, and leads to stupidity like supporting illegal coups.

At least first worlder Robin 'Naive' Nair was made to eat humble pie in third world Fiji!

Unifiji has the worst people employed by them. The high staff turnover is ridiculous, the new registrar is a matter for laughter the new acting vc is a slack arse who does not know a thing about running a university which the bhun datt guy is the biggest dumb and inexperienced man around. pathik is too old to do anything for the university and is another dumb old man who likes to feel important and should just stay home and kiss his wifes bum.

The real reason why Professor Mahendra Kumar got the sack was because he tried to dig into the finances of Unifiji and the mismanagement of funds by Kamlesh Arya and Ravineet Sami of the government grants to unifiji. So it goes, Kamlesh Arya quickly put his name forward for registrars position, Prof Kumar got terminated asap with baseless and Kamlesh Arya became Registrar to save his and Ravineet Sami's black arse!! all this with the approval of the likes of Bhun Dutt and the other fuckers who belong to the counil of the university. So guys, they all know what is going on but each wants to cover their dirty tracks by making one person the crim here! Unifiji is a crap university anyway.

Professor of Kamasutra Dr Mahendra Kumar was recently seen in suva drunk looking shabby old and depressed. His daddy in law can't face his arya samaji so called family and friends because his 69'ing son in law can't get rid of his libido problem. Too scared to face the people in fiji Mahendra Kumar has run away to australia where he is said to be begging wifey and daddy in law to refrain from all the "true" stories about his love affairs. Mahendra Kumar can root and 69 like a 20 year old from the rumours. We do not want a pervert like Mahendra Kumar in the academic system in Fiji. He is a disgrace to academia and a threat to the society. Keep the sex maniac away from the good people. Arya Samaj is a disgrace.

Latest news from the University of Sin and sex- rapist Julian Moti has been appointed as Professor of Law and thats the best place for him to be as it unifiji is the university of sex scandal and now a pedophile also jonning them. Professor of Kamasutra Mahendra Kumar should cum back as VC. Julian Moti and Mahendra Kumar can mount young girls in the office together.

Dr Dulare has resigned because the fairer sex dont want to warm his bed and will soon find himself in hot water because he had his hands in the cookie jar with RAvineet"shady"Sami and Kamlesh Arya fiddling and using unifiji funds to build big houses. Dr Dulare nagonchi in hot soup with ministrym

Kamlesh Arya is known for bailing his sons theft and sending him to australia. Old man pathik is too old and still saving face after professor of kamasutra mahendra kumar brought shame to oathik family. pro mahendra kumar was recently seen trying to look important at SPF and on his recent trip to suva looked old, gay, knocked up & satisfied from all the mounting he is getting from the islands.

Satendra none-done is warming his old balls in canberra with wife Jyoti after they collected hefty pay from UniFiji enjoying.

Circus continues coz another araya samaji will be VC.

Close Uni of Fiji down! its a waste of taxpayer money and dangerous place for girls. Julian Moti could teach bhuwan, kamlesh pathik how to mount underage girls

Still no word on Professor in Kamasutra, Dr Mahend Kumar, ex UniFiji VC, son-in-law of coup collaborator, Davendra Pathik. Mahend was caught performing cunnilingus on a woman other than wife, of all places in the VC's office! Fiji horniest VC ever was sacked. Even Pathik, who nepotistically got him appointed in the first place, could not save him. Any sightings of mahen please report to c4.5.